Push/ Pull Factors
Vocabulary
People
Potpourri
Entertainment
100
The attacks on Jewish villages in Russia.
What is a pogrom?
100
The process of learning a new culture while holding onto an older culture.
What is acculturation?
100
The inventor of basketball from Springfield, Massachusetts.
Who is Naismith?
100
This suffix (the ending of a word) indicates that it is a belief.
What is "ism."
100
He planned and designed New York's Central Park.
Who is Frederick Law Olmsted?
200
The chief pull factor to the US.
What are jobs?
200
This law banned Chinese immigrants from entering the US.
What is the Chinese Exclusion Act.
200
He created one of the most successful department stores in NYC.
Who is RH Macy?
200
This suffix (the ending of word) indicates that it is a word meaning a person who holds a belief.
What is "ist."
200
I wrote the Maple Leaf Rag, a famous ragtime song.
Who is Scott Joplin
300
England, Ireland, Germany, and Scandinavia.
What are the four types of "Old Immigrants?"
300
The first one was built in Chicago as was an example of building UP instead of OUT.
What is a skyscraper?
300
A Cherokee actor that often played roles as a cowboy.
Who is Will Rogers.
300
This city was destroyed by a fire and instead of rebuilding it upward, the planners decided to build upward and thus created the first skyscraper.
What is Chicago.
300
This type of variety show was popular during the late 1800s and displayed such acts as the Marx Brothers.
What is vaudeville.
400
The reason why Mexicans immigrated during the early 1900s.
What is the Mexican Revolution?
400
News reporting that was often biased or untrue that relies on sensational stories and headlines.
What is Yellow Journalism?
400
A famous marching band composer who created the "Stars and Stripes Forever."
Who is John Philip Sousa.
400
This government agency built schools in the South during Reconstruction while the north had compulsory education.
What is the Freedman's Bureau.
400
A low price paperback book that offered adventure stories.
What are dime Novels.
500
The airless rooms below decks where the poor immigrants traveled alongside animals and cargo.
What is steerage?
500
Schools that are run by churches.
What is a parochial school?
500
He was famous for writing "Huckleberry Finn and is considered the most famous popular realist author that used local color.
Who is Mark Twain?
500
The two publishers of New York World and the New York Journal that engaged in yellow journalism.
Who are Hearst and Pulitzer?
500
I invented the phonograph to play music and the light bulb for indoor and outdoor lighting.
Who is Thomas Edison.
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